Agricultural labor shortage in Morocco: Growers sound the alarm

Morocco’s agricultural sector has grown rapidly in recent years, raising concerns about insufficient resources, such as water and logistics. Nowadays, however, a different kind of scarcity has emerged and gives no peace to growers. At a time when the country’s unemployment rate is 13.3% and its activity rate is 43.5% (High Commission for Planning), and when thousands of Moroccan workers leave for European farms every year, Moroccan growers are struggling to mobilize manpower, and sound the alarm about an imminent crisis, the first signs of which are already present.

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